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A federal grant rejected by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration that would have funded shelter for homeless veterans in New York City included clauses prohibiting the promotion of “gender ideology” and “denial of the sex binary,” which city officials say is why they pulled out of the longstanding program, The City Reporter has learned. City officials said Friday they exited the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Grant and Per Diem program because the grant required them to comply with two of President Donald Trump’s executive orders they feared would have forced them to discriminate against transgender veterans seeking shelter. City officials...

In our post-Oct. 7 world, one in which the New York Times can note in astonishment that some Israelis still view themselves as victims of the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, a story about a Jew being chased through the streets of a major Western city is unfortunately not that surprising.I've already written about a couple of cases this year. A man who noticed a couple in Santa Monica, Calif., wearing Jewish stars while he was driving threatened to kill them, yelling: “You’re a Zionist, motherf***ing pedophile, motherf***ing Jew. Child killer!” It didn't end there. He got...

New York City has finalised a more than $131m settlement with DoorDash amid allegations that the delivery company underpaid its workers. The administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the settlement on Tuesday. It marked the largest settlement for delivery workers in any city in the United States, set to affect 260,000 workers. Of the total, $115m will go directly to the workers, while $16m will go towards civil penalties and other costs. A nearly 70-page consent order, provided to Al Jazeera by the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), found the San Francisco, California-based delivery giant failed to...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani renewed his call for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes and accused him of visiting a “genocide” on Palestinians just days before the leader is to speak at the UN General Assembly. “When it comes to Benjamin Netanyahu, I have described him as I believe him to be — a war criminal and an architect of a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people,” the mayor told CNN after a cordial meeting with President Trump at Gracie Mansion Monday.“I do believe that that is something that should be honored, because what we want...

A new Skid Row encampment popped up across the street from NYU dorms — with vagrants bragging that living on the streets of the Big Apple is “much better” under Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The 30-foot-long shantytown at East Ninth Street and Third Avenue sits just outside Ukrainian Village Park, with a long blue tarp covering office chairs, luggage and bicycles on the sidewalk, in plain sight of both passersby and the college students who live across the street, The Post has learned. “Some people are nice, some people think we invade their space,” Raymond, 45, who lives in the shelter,...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is weaponizing the apparatus of city government to crush landlords and seize their property, violating state law, the U.S. Constitution and fundamental fairness. If you're not a landlord, you may think this doesn't affect you -- but think again. Landlords are just the first: Anyone who owns anything is in this socialist mayor's crosshairs. He ignores the limits of government power and his duty to govern for all the people. As evidence of the danger ahead, see Mamdani's new Office of Worker Power, announced on Labor Day. It's a first-in-the-nation municipal initiative to push...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted lefty leaders from across the globe on Saturday to kick off a three-day summit pushing progressive agenda items like dealing with climate change. Mamdani delivered opening remarks at the Urban 20 Summit in New York City, where he and other mayors discussed “practical solutions” to address “rising housing costs, the climate crisis and migration,” according to a propaganda press statement released by the socialist mayor’s media team. Details of the summit were scarce and released Soviet-style. Most of Saturday’s activities were closed to the press. Only select media – which did not include The Post...

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani hosted lefty leaders from across the globe on Saturday to kick off a three-day summit pushing progressive agenda items like dealing with climate change. Mamdani delivered opening remarks at the Urban 20 Summit in New York City, where he and other mayors discussed “practical solutions” to address “rising housing costs, the climate crisis and migration,” according to a propaganda press statement released by the socialist mayor’s media team. Details of the summit were scarce and released Soviet-style. Most of Saturday’s activities were closed to the press. Only select media – which did not include The Post...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani offered condolences Thursday for an accused murderer who died in Department of Corrections custody — mentioning nothing of the victim he allegedly killed. Luis Alberto Lopez Castillo was facing murder, manslaughter, robbery and weapons charges in connection with the 2025 slaying of 26-year-old autistic man Ron Marte. Castillo was accused of robbing Marte of his cellphone during an early morning ambush in the Bronx’s Starlight Park, where Castillo’s alleged accomplice, Axel Martinez, reportedly shot Marte in the chest as he walked home from an Amazon warehouse shift. “I extend my condolences to his family,” Mamdani wrote about...

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday announced plans to install 17 additional modular public bathrooms across New York City as part of a one-year pilot program with Throne Labs. The new bathrooms will be placed in high-traffic areas across the city, with installation beginning this week. Officials showcased two of the modular units as part of the announcement. New Yorkers will be able to access the bathrooms by text message, QR code, through the Throne Bathroom Network app or with a tap card distributed by local community partners. The tap cards are intended to ensure people...

Zo-and-tell! City Hall officials must cough up their emails and texts with the powerful Rent Guidelines Board that Mayor Zohran Mamdani allegedly bigfooted into fulfilling his promised rent freeze, a judge ruled Wednesday. Judge Brendan Lantry — the former chair for the Staten Island GOP — granted a narrow order for the behind-the-scenes communications to see if supposedly independent rent board members illicitly colluded with Mamdani’s team. “The question naturally arises: how would the Mayor comply with his ‘guarantee’ to the voters to ‘freeze’ the rent unless he, or his staff, communicated with the Board to ensure that the Board...

In addition to her government and advocacy work, Afridi is currently listed as an editor at Pinko, a magazine which describes itself as “a collective for thinking gay communism.” On the masthead, she went by “L. Israh Afridi.” Israh is an Arabic word for “night journey” that is sacred in Islam. . . . .Afridi is a close friend of Cea Weaver, the notorious top Mamdani housing official who’s called home ownership “a weapon of white supremacy” and expressed a desire to “impoverish the white middle class.”. . .Afridi is only the latest in a string of oddballs, cranks, antisemites,...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday unveiled “Vision Zero Reimagined,” a wide-ranging plan to eliminate traffic deaths within 10 years — including by boosting “pedestrian-only” zones across the city. The 105-page blueprint, however, offers few concrete details on the no-car zones, such as where they would be located or how much of the city would be turned into “pedestrian-priority districts.” “Vision Zero Reimagined puts forward the bold measures and practical fixes we need to make preventable tragedy no longer a part of everyday life in New York City,” Mamdani said. The plan also vaguely vows to institute 20 mph speed limits...

Since the 1880s, the United States has had a policy requiring people entering the country with the intent to become permanent residents to support themselves. There have been times when the requirements or implementation of that policy have been more lenient than others, but at no point since the 1880s, nor after the welfare state dramatically expanded did Congress intend for people to be allowed to immigrate in order to avail themselves of the privilege of becoming a "public charge." It's an obviously common-sense policy. The alternative is to make the United States the welfare provider for the world, which...

“the five stores will cost about $167M over ten years, and the discounted baskets will reach roughly 12,000 households. Spent in other, simpler ways, the same money could deliver discounted food to between 70,000 and 180,000 households”Source: https://gizmowarehouse.org/gizmo/nyc-public-grocery-new-math

Mamdani against Trump: Twenty-two states across the US are suing the Trump administration over a new rule scheduled to take effect on Friday that will make it more difficult for immigrants from many countries to enter the United States. The new rule is intended to give immigration officials broader discretion and the ability to deny immigrants entry to the US if there is concern that they will require public assistance to cover their living, housing, or healthcare expenses. The rule also applies to families with legal status in the US, who could face deportation if they seek financial assistance for...

Two far-left Mayor Zohran Mamdani-backed House hopefuls are plotting a socialist push in DC even before being elected — and it could cost the Big Apple more than $215 million in crucial anti-terror funds, sources say. Leading Democratic Socialists of America candidates Darializa Avila-Chevalier and Claire Valdez have hatched a scheme with congressional “Squad” members to vote down the Department of Homeland Security budget next year as they try to help create a powerful bloc of socialists in office in the nation’s capital, according to insiders. The anti-DHS plan would come at a cost to the local radicals’ de facto...

The New York Times came under fire Wednesday over a baffling passage that appeared in an article about an Israeli documentary — which said the Jewish state “still largely view themselves as the victims of Oct. 7.” The Sept. 14 article, penned by Jerusalem-based reporter Isabel Kershner, covers the controversy over the documentary film “NAZA,” which chronicles the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and just won the Special Jury Prize at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The article details the criticism about the 80-minute film lodged by some Israeli officials — who called it “based on blood libels” and...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were seen yukking it up during the somber reading of 9/11 victims at Ground Zero during the 25th anniversary service. The New York City Democratic Socialists of America darlings appeared all smiles in a live feed of the ceremony, interspersed with shots of a man cradling his head in his arms and bawling his eyes out and friends and family reading out the names of their departed loved ones from the podium.

The flyers went up in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood last month, plastered onto lampposts, bollards, building walls and traffic control boxes. “Beware: Talmudists are trained to cheat,” said one of the flyers posted in opposition to a housing redevelopment project. “Locals vs. Rothschilds,” another said. While those flyers echoed age-old antisemitic tropes, others deployed Israel-related or anti-Zionist rhetoric, decrying “dirty zionist money” and comparing the redevelopment project to the Nakba. “Stop Zionist occupation of Manhattan. NYCHA residents must keep their homes,” one said, referring to the New York City Housing Authority, at the entrance to an apartment building.